Anno 1404 - History Edition
Fair · Strategy · 2020
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $4.49. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 18.6h
- Value
- $0.24/hr
- Reviews
- 82% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GTX 660, R7 265, 7.8 GB of storage. Windows only.
Relive the captivating gameplay of a true city-building classic with Anno® 1404 History Edition.
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $4.49. That was June 2023. It has been discounted 51 times in the 6 years tracked here, typically at 70 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today's $4.49 at 70 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 5 percent on value. It is pricier than 81 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 83 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Kingdoms Reborn ($19.99, scores 73) beats it on value, while it beats Anno 1800 ($14.99, scores 60).
6 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2021 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 37 percent of the 432 reviews written there were positive, against 82 percent overall, and those are 13 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 18.6 hours; clearing it takes 884, which is 48 times the campaign.
Players
260 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
great game; works out of the box with Fedora 44; only a ubisoft account is needed for which reason ever...
5 (or 6?) years later, I finally got the "gold" ship... Anno 1404 is an old-style builder, and one of the best in the Annos series, but not easy by any means! It will work well on any PC/laptop, so it is a nice game to keep with you when you are away and have only a low/medium-end laptop. I loved it, but do not try to achieve it 100% as I did: very very painful...
I really want to thank Ubisoft for wasting my time and not allowing me to play a game I paid for in the evening when i wanted play it again after 4 years. They deleted my Ubisoft account and created a complete mess with licence and connection between steam and Ubisoft. Total garbage and waste of my time, totally unnecesary
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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Anno 1404 - History Edition scores 64/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1281630/anno-1404-history-editionThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 2, price as of Sep 24.
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